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Intolerable Acts Quiz Standards Proclamation of 1763

 The Proclamation of 1763, signed by King George III of England, prohibited any English settlement west of the Appalachian mountains.  It required those already settled in those regions to return east in an attempt to ease tensions with Native Americans.

Colonist Response Response of Proclamation of 1763

 Colonists resented not being able to settle west of the Proclamation line, especially in places like the Ohio Valley  With the French removed, they believed it their right.

Click picture to read the Real Proclamation!! Watch out it’s wordy! Sugar Act of 1764 •The Sugar Act was passed by Parliament to pay for the war debt brought on by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies and newly acquired territories.

•This act increased the duties on imported sugar and other items such as textiles, coffee, wines and indigo (dye). Stamp Act of 1764

 In March, the Stamp Act was passed by Parliament imposing the first direct tax on the American colonies, to offset the high costs of the British military organization in America. Thus for the first time in the 150 year old history of the British colonies in America, the Americans will pay tax not to their own local legislatures in America, but directly to England. Next Page. Stamp Act of 1764

 Under the Stamp Act, all printed materials were taxed, including:  newspapers  pamphlets  bills  legal documents  licenses  almanacs  dice and playing cards. Colonist Response

Response to the Stamp Act

 The American colonists quickly united in opposition, led by the most influential segments of colonial society - lawyers, publishers, land owners, ship builders and merchants - who were most affected by the Act. Townshend Acts

 In 1767, The English Parliament passed the Townshend Revenue Acts, imposing a new series of taxes on the colonists to pay for the costs of administering and protecting the American colonies. Items taxed included imports such as paper, tea, glass, lead and paints.  The Act also established a colonial board of customs commissioners in Boston. Colonist Response Letters from a Farmer

 The most famous response to the Townshend Acts was John Dickinson’s essays, “Letters from a Farmer,” which argued against taxing for the purpose of raising revenue. Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre occurred when a mob harassed British soldiers who then fired their muskets pointblank into the crowd, killing three instantly, mortally wounding two others and injuring six. Colonist Response Boston Massacre Response

 The Boston Massacre was, of course, not a “massacre,” in the classic sense. Colonialist responded through propaganda and immediately capitalized on this incident, using it to fan colonial passions of seeing the British unjustly governing the colonies. On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of men calling themselves the "Sons of Liberty" went to the Boston Harbor. The men were dressed as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three British ships, the Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth, and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor.

Colonist Response Boston Tea Party

 The Boston Tea Party was a direct response from colonists who opposed tea which was taxed by someone other than their own representatives. Intolerable Acts

 The Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts) were a series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. The laws were these:  Boston Port Act  Quartering Act  Quebec Act  Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act  Impartial Administration of Justice Act

Colonist Response Boston Port Act

 Closed the port of Boston in 1774 until the price of the dumped tea was recovered, moved the capital of Massachusetts to Salem, and made Marblehead the official port of entry for the Massachusetts colony

Intolerable Acts Quartering Act

 Allowed royal troops to stay in houses or empty buildings if barracks were not available

Intolerable Acts Quebec Act

 Granted civil government and religious freedom to Catholics living in Quebe

Intolerable Acts Massachusetts Regulating Act

 Made all law officers subject to appointment by the royal governor and banned all town meetings that didn't have approval of the royal governor

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Impartial Administration of Justice Act

 Allowed the royal governor of a colony to move trials to other colonies or even to England if he feared that juries in those colonies wouldn't judge a case fairly

Intolerable Acts Response to the Intolerable Acts

 These were by far the harshest of the acts passed. Those living in Boston and Massachusetts would lose money from the Boston Port Act, be forced to provide housing to soldiers through the Quartering Act, and be denied some of the same freedoms other colonists received through the Quebec Act.  The colonists called for a convention. Select A Question:

Q. 1 Q. 5 Q. 9 Q. 2 Q. 6 Q. 10 Q. 3 Q. 7 Q. 4 Q. 8 Causes for American Revolution Quiz

Question 1:

This document prohibited any English settlement west of the Appalachian mountains.

A)The Intolerable Acts B)The Proclamation of 1763 C)The Townshend Acts D) The Declaratory Act